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Paul Klee 

Paul Klee (1879-1940)  was a Swiss / German painter and graphic artist whose diverse work is classified as Expressionism, Constructivism, Cubism, Primitivism, and Surrealism. Klee was in close contact with the editorial group Der Blaue Reiter and showed graphic works at their second exhibition in 1912. Until then, the artist, who had worked primarily as a graphic artist, achieved his breakthrough as a painter with a trip to Tunisia in 1914. This trip became known as the Tunis Trip, which was of significant importance in art history. Like his friend, the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, Klee taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar from 1921 and later in Dessau. From 1931, he was a professor at r Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (the Düsseldorf Art Academy). After the Nazis seized power, he returned to Bern, where he had grown up as the son of a German father and a Swiss mother. There, during his final years from 1934 onward, he produced an extensive late body of work, despite the growing strain of a serious illness. In addition to his artistic work, he wrote art-theoretical texts such as Schöpferische Konfession (1920) (Creative Confession) dnd Pädagogisches Skizzenbuch (1925) (Pedagogical Sketchbook). Paul Klee is one of the most important visual artists of classical modernism in the 20th century.

March 29th,  2025

 

 
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